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Miniature converter and painter hailing from the Grim North of West Yorkshire, with a particular love of everything Warhammer, Grimdark and Blanchitsu

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May 28, 2018

My Hobby Progress of 2018 and thoughts on hobby motivation

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Mike's Random Wargame Meanderings Blog

The Armies Of Mordor - One of my mates messaged me to ask me if I wanted a game, as he only plays Lord of the Rings I knew I was going to have to tidy up/add to one of my coll...
ars ludi

Going Back to Games Unlimited - The old Games Unlimited in Pittsburgh was the game store of our childhood. It’s where we went to buy RPGs, modules, dice, and a whole pile of miniatures. W...
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The Beard Bunker

Nightfall 31st Camo Cloak Guide (And Lots of Rough Riders Too) - Phew, it’s been a while since I posted about the Nightfall 31st, the Eridani Sector’s answer to “What if Gaunt's Ghosts but scummier?” I’ve been painting...
Tower of the Archmage

Cardboard Starship #4: Transport part 1 - If you look back at the "cardboard starship" tag, you'll see there have been a couple of previous builds... and #3 was never updated. That's because I ne...
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Authors Who Influenced Ornamental Women - The other day, someone asked me if there were any specific authors that influenced the way I wrote *Ornamental Women*. (What, you don't have a copy of *...
Goblin Lee's Miniatures Blog.

Citadel 1980's Lord of the Rings: The Last March of Ents (completed). - I have finished my 'March of the Ents' army. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, the army in organised and based according to the Midgard rules set, a...
Convert or Die

The Shortest Knight - It’s the longest day of the year here in the northern hemisphere, which means of course it’s also the shortest night. What better way to celebrate than by ...
Tales From Farpoint

Off on Holiday! - Hi! I've got a much needed holiday and we've headed down south for the week so blogging is going to be rather sparse until our return next week. On the...
Mr Saturday's Mumblings

Undead Spearhead 6 - The Choir of Ashes - Another small unit of skeleton warriors across the finish line. This time it's the Choir of Ashes, led by the bellicose Sergeant Wollf. This unit is ...
WarbossKurgan

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The Responsible One's Wargaming Blog

A few delightful packages - While I couldn't get to UK Games Expo, a friend was going, and they kindly picked up a couple of bits and pieces for me. The main one is the event exclu...
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

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Magpie and Old Lead

Lumpy Mo - Scavvy Grenade Launcher - You can cut and paste all of the comments I made about scavvies and heavy stubbers to apply to scavvies with grenade launchers. Essentially it boils down...
LEADPLAGUE

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Improved Initiative

Another Social Media Struggle (Reddit Has Decided To Kick Me In The Teeth, And I Could Use Some Help) - We've all heard that philosophical argument about how if a tree falls in the forest, but there's no one around to see it or hear it, did it actually fall? ...
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Venger's old school gaming blog

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In A World of Paint

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Old School Workshop

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THE WORK OF SHAITAN

Citadel LE15 Amazonia Gothique - an unexpected tribute - So about three weeks ago, I decided to make a start on an idea I'd had for a while, a small vignette featuring the limited edition model, based on the clas...
bigbossredskullz

BBRS`Big Summer Project of 2026! - Been five years has it not? Well, without using too many words nor time for it I’ve been kinda stuck in the insta-blast-your-mind mode for a few years and ...
Distopus

Grim Fell Scar - Grim Fell Scar Grim Fell Scar Situated on an extremely remote island on Imperial world of Barrauch. Once home to hardy villagers and miners who eked ou...
Death of a Rubricist

+ inload: Building the Reaver Titan + - + Scythian Uprising + + Update on building the big Reaver – things are ticking along, and I thought I'd share some notes. + +++ + Building the *Scythian*...
eternalhunt

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Oldhammer on a budget

MESBG - Here Be Dragons - Hello my fellow denizens of desire, today I bring forth one of my favorite armies that I spent a fair chunk of time getting ready. Dragons of the Nort...
Sproket's Small World

Gnome Assassin - Struggles with painting a flesh tone I’ve been working on a new project, the Gnome Assassin from Miniature Madness sculpted by Leonardo Escovar "Poisonauta...
Realm of Chaos 80s

The Hero's Quest: An Interview With Stuart Thomas - I have been interviewing people involved with the early days of Games Workshop for many years. Some folk consider me a bit of a pioneer in the field. ...
Bitter Old Painters

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Give'em Lead

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Realms of Chaos

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Hekatoncheires

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Lasgunpacker

GeG Swap meet II - The FLGS had another Swap Meet on Sunday, which was also proximate to the Kid's birthday. This is the third time I have been to one of these now, and ho...
the leadpile

Game 4 - Dwarfs...Again! - Last game of the weekend was agianst another Dwarf player, this time it was an Expeditionary Force army. The board consisted of a fairly open middle a...
The Lost and the Damned

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Goldmunds Welt

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Papers and Pencils

Referee Sabotage - It is an old saw that players are bad at executing their plans. Imagine this common scene: the party have some big job that requires planning; perhaps robb...
The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

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heresy of us

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Deathworld Adventures

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Erny's place.

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The Empyrean

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LotFP: RPG

New Website/Blog Space - We will be using this site for regular news and updates from here on out.
sho3box

Star Wars & 02 Hundred Hours - I’ve been playing the wonderful 02 Hundred Hours from Grey for Now games recently. As thoroughly expected from one of the creators of the equally fantastic...
Griffit's corner

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The Realm of Zhu

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MASSIVE VOODOO

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Somewhere the Tea's getting cold...

Dead Wood... - Happy Halloween - or at least it would have been if I'd gotten this post out on time! Read more »
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Iron Sleet

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Empire of Ghosts

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Xulutec

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Modern Synthesist

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Imitation of Life

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Blue's Marauding Miniatures

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Myth & Moor

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fuckyeahbritisholdschoolgaming

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The Everwayan

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SPACE HULK: BOARDING MISSION

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Chimerical Realm

New Year, New Character Day 22: Pendragon - New Year, New Character Day 22 Pendragon Pendragon is a game where players take on the roles of knights in Arthurian Britain. That's it. There's no rog...
The Lost and the Very Damned

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Tears of Envy's blog

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Gardens of Hecate

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PINXIT

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Diary of a Lapsed Painter

Games Workshop and Plastic Waste - This is an awareness raising post. So before I started writing this I did a Google and this petition came up, and is still live. http://chng.it/byjt24cWvx...
Stro'Knor Macekiller

The Heroes of Fruglehofen - Yes, I know I said I was starting with Gimbrin's Mine... again. Due to vagaries of the warp or machinations of some evil power I am still waiting for some ...
Madhouse Society

The Red Crusade - In the Realm of Ulgu the very realm itself is made of illusion given form. So it is little wonder that in this land of twisted perception the madness of th...
LAWHAMMER!

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davidneat

Casting prop books and making ‘specials’ - Continuing with the subject of prop-making for stop-motion animation, back in 2011 I had to make a small library full of books for one particular film. I m...
Buried Under Lead

Schwarzweald 2: Here comes trouble - Hello there! Time for another trip to the dark woods, lets see whats been happening *A storm is brewing.. * * The White Tusk raiders* S...
Wargaming Tradecraft

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Old Orcs Never Die...

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INQ40k

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Recalcitrant Daze

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Lectitio Divinitatus

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Scale Creep

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MAXXEV'S BLOG

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Musings of a Metal Mind

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Returning from the Warp - *It is a darker time. * *The galaxy is riven, beset on all sides by implacable foes who seem without number; without end. * *Our allies and comrades-in-a...
Colonel O'Truth's Miniature Issues

I'm invading Old Blighty! - Hi, All! Wouldn't you know it, but I'm heading to Merrie Olde England for a few weeks! And since I have family in the Newark area, I thought I'd pop me he...
Miasma of Pestilence

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FUNKY WENIS RODEO

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Green Stuff Industries

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The Rusty Workbench

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Eastern Empire

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Lazy and Distracted

Throne of Power - Some may ask why a lonely throne stands in the middle of the chaos waste. I have no clue but I like it. I didn't glue the parts to the base so I can pl...
Nergling

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Leave No Model Unconverted

John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford: The Butcher - The history of John, 9th Baron Clifford, bringing him to plastic life with Perry miniatures. One of the Wars of the Roses' most intriguing figures, his is ...
Belched from the Depths

Wars of the Roses - Sharing another WIP project here. When my local historical club embarked on a group Wars of the Roses project last summer, I threw in. I'd already had fig...
11th Legion

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Ewal Dvergar

The Colour of Magic - Morning all. A pair of Sorcerers have received a lick of paint and I wanted to share them with you. Here is your book, Sire Here, take your god-damn bo...
Proxie Models

New Year issue. - This is a quick update regarding the web store. It has been destroyed utterly. After numerous complaints that is does not work with mobile devices I s...
Four go to war!

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WilhelMiniatures

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Paint Water Diaries

Age of Sigmar, more like Age of No Thank You - I don’t think I’ve voiced this opinion before, but emboldened by Martin’s recent tirade against Orcs; I thought I’d talk about something that really rust...
Of Dice and Men

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Rab's Geekly Digest

Meet Emrim - Meet Emrim. For a dwarf (and a thief*) he's a good sort, and a fine shot to have alongside you in a fight. Not *behind* you, mind, he's not a perfect shot ...
Tales from the Maelstrom

3rd edition Warhammer Norse army update - Way back in pre-history (1986), a 13 year old version of me started a Warhammer Norse army. I bought it one blister at a time, using the money I earned fr...
Do You Have A Flag?

The Naval Battle of Cherbourg 1904 - The entire French fleet present (mostly) at Cherbourg, bar the *Henri IV -* curresntly MIA... Last weekend I had the privilege to command the French fle...
Realm of Citadel - Slave to the Lead

40k Tzeentch Warband #4: Chaos Dreadnought - A seriously chaotic miniature from the wonders of the Rogue Trader Era. Been drooling over this one since back in the days and now finally painted one! Ho...
I'm alone with a dream

A sign-off: What deters me from the 40K fandom - Warhammer saved me long ago from the monotony of mainstream media. It revealed to me there were some stories worth pursuing, there was an audience for gri...
Eldritch Epistles

Questoris Knight Magaera update and Sons of Horus Legion Sicaran Battle Tank - I've made some progress on the Questoris Knight Magaera: ...and started another Forge World project, a Sons of Horus Legion Sicaran Battle Tank: These b...
Ex Profundis

Dark Mechanicus Mutant Abominations - Deep in the underhive, the thralls of the Dark Mechanicus serve their masters in their search for arcane technology and new subjects for their experiment...
Scarecrow Musings

Digibilly - The Smooth, The Groove, The Grungy. - New Digibilly album soon! (I got a sneak preview) From the great first track ’The Eastwood’ you are introduced to the world of the Philadelphia based DJ...
Of Marauders and Citadels

Lord of Change - *"Magnarrr" , the voice purred as the deamon scrutinised it's champion, "you must remember there is nothing I do not know, no-one I do not suspect! No-one...
davetaylorminiatures

I am writing a BOOK! - That's right, fellow blog fans! I've decided to write a book about painting wargaming collections. It will be going to Kickstarter this *Friday, March 1...
miniaTEXTures

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masteroftheforge.com

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Green Staff

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I have wrought my simple plan...

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Paints, Pencils and Plastics

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Rust and the City

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Blind Squirrel Props

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FToaMG

Troika! Fucks for Satan - I am currently writing a scenario using Troika! as the engine. It’s set in the 17th century, focusing on England (lots of stuff to play with) and features ...
Dave's Games

WIP: Babylon modular sci-fi terrain kit - Here's a sneak peek at something I'm working on.
A Blog of Blood and Bones

More Photo Dumps -
Excommunicate Traitoris

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Mordheim Treasure Hunters

Modelling: Cobblestone Bases - *Been to many towns in my youth. I have an experience of a lifetime of street walking. Still no human town has a cobblestone more treacherous than Mordhei...
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Sector Imperialis - Bonjour, Me revoilà! Je suis en train de peindre et monter du décor pour 40K, Je viens de terminer une des section de la table de GW et il faut beau donc pe...
Mr Lee's Painting Emporium

Undead Shamblers - Almost finished? - Well I have come to the point where I need to call this beauty finished. At least for now. My energy levels are already quite depleted and so putting ef...
Skulldred

Skulldred Kickstarter Plans - The Hey Dredlings, Over the coming months I will be building a Kickstarter to allow me to focus solely on Skulldred and bring it to publication. As you...
Miniature Warfare

Disney Princesses's Dance Hall - Maybe you do not know it, but I live with a princess ... My daughter! Here's her last commission
Frothing Muppet's Land of Miniatures

094. WIP Nurgle Chaos Marine Kill Team... - Ray suggested we head into the re-launched 'Warhammer' Adelaide store this coming weekend to try out the new Shadow Wars (certainly not Necromunda) Armaged...
Paul's Hobby Blog

AOS28 | Tree Revenants - Here's my two completed Tree Revenants for my AOS28 Sylvaneth warband! As the greens and blues of my chosen Sylvaneth paintscheme are so bright, I used ...
Picta Mortis

Dravon S'karr - Dravon S'Karr - The Ryat Star Jackal, Captain of the Obsidian Contessa - with his personal Icon bearer.
The New Realms Of Chaos

The Lost Maiden - The Lost Maiden - A tragic tale. . . She was a beautiful young girl who’s life was unfortunately to become a plaything of the chaos gods. Born blind, she ...
Eve Hallow Miniatures

Thunder... - Very WIP:- Eve
Darkling Games

Stardred: first glimpse - Happy new year! Thought I would kick off the year with something fresh and fun. Since Skulldred is stuck on HDDs in Sydney, and I am in Melbourne- I de...
Mr E Models

Martian Handling Machine - progress - Right, with tentacles made from Green Stuff and legs from coathanger wire, the thing was given a dapple of Mr Surfacer to give it surface texture, then pri...
Legatho's warehouse

Lest's have a test.... - Hi guys, buddies, friends and bros. Tomorrow, I'll put my first painted mini on ebay as a test... I don't want to make it a business, but It's interesting ...
FullRepent

FullRepent is back !!! - Enfin la revoilà - Qui sommes-nous ?
The Black Castle.

Mordheim: City of the Lead @ BOYL 2017 - I have to bust this one out early as the rest of the month is jam-packed so it's now or never. I will go back to improve this one and pep the base up (will...
Phreedh's Mini Stuff Feed

A solitary Heroquest fimir - The handsome fellows over on the Scale Creep blog invited me to join their Heroquest Hero Quest and I could hardly turn them down. After all, I had already...
Role-play Dwarf

Command squad and captain finished - Sorry it's been so long since my last post i was too tired to post on Thursday and have been on annual leave since then and hurt my back during my leave so...
Chicago Skirmish Wargames

We’re Back, Baby! - Well, it's been a whole year away, but click here for the new and improved Chicago Skirmish Wargames Blog! Josh has been hard at work bringing a new look an...
Picturesque Ruins

Taking a page from Kevin Adams... - I split this off from the previous post because, damn it, I'm kinda proud of doing this. I am a big fan of Kevin Adams, sculptor extraordinaire, who uses l...
Stygian Thorne

Servitora Crania: Practicing to draw servo skulls - One of my favorite thing about 40k that AoS doesn't have is servo skulls. Something about these morbid memento mori are creepily cute. I was really first ...
Beneath The Mire

In His name we purge! Deathwatch. - Good afternoon brothers, sisters, people who play Eldar and all those in between. Today I am once again jumping on the glorious addiction that is the hobby...
Bizzarewarstar

Warhammer Quest: Knight Questor WIP Pt2 - The Knight Questor is almost finished. With just his sword, cloak and hair to be painted along with some final touches he should be done very soon. Blu...
GRIM DARK REALMS

Space Marine Minotaur Chapter Painting Project - Kit Bashing 30k and 40k Marines My new painting project has arrived and boy am I excited. I have decided to start this force composition off with a str...
Realms of Miniatures

Experiment: Introducing new blood #1 - Once in a while I try to play a game with the boys. I usually let them play a game of Heroquest or let them fight it out against a couple of monsters on a ...
Crosser Modelling

Blood angel Razorbacks with FW bits and Assault Cannons - I picked up two lovely base coated and transfer stuck razorbacks from ebay and enjoyed the very easy process of weathering them and finishing off the deta...
Little Green Monsters - Xenite's Miniatures Page

Recent Project: Blood Angels - I've been working on my 30k Blood Angels for an upcoming event. Here are some Work in Progress shots.
Eye of Error

The War Machine Project Part 2 - Much progress has been made. The model has been built into sub-assemblies, the lighting has been installed. More after the jump. This kit utilizes t...
Lead Or Alive: Bruno's Miniatures

Squat Pirate - Yes folks, I still exist and I still find a little time to paint little tin soldiers. Here's my latest noteworthy accomplishment, one of the fantastic Squa...
Miniature Tim

AdeptiCon 2016: Infinity Seminar! - Infinity at AdeptiCon. It's been a thing for a while now, but this year, Corvus Belli was in attendance!! ...none of you are really going to read this,...
Forlorn hope

Word bearer tacticals - More Word Bearers! These are the WIP pictures of the second tactical squad, the three with bases were used during the Inferno tournament and so they jumpe...
Brushes United

This place is dead anyways... WRONG - Hi there. I decided to resurrect once and for all. Past year has been quite a struggle from the hobby world's view and here I am with my dried paints and ...
Nesbet Miniatures

WIP-REVIEW: More scenery for Robotech! - First update of this year! I've been building the scenery sets from 4Ground I have so far: Primera actualización del año! He estado armando los sets de escen...
First Point of Aries

The Bio-Pilgrymme, Part I: The Daerwynne Palimpsest and Lost Mechanicvm - +++ The Bio-Pilgrymme... The God Emperor... The Green Man Cometh! +++ On January 1st 2016 a massive undertaking was launched over at Iron Sleet: *Th...
Read The Damn Book

Updated D&D 5E Player's Reference Sheets - I know it's been a while, but I finally got around to updating my Player's Reference Sheets. It's only a few small changes. I fixed a couple of typos and...
The Chainflail and Lead blog

A Game of Epic Proportion! - Ahhhh half a year later and I'm ready with my second post this year :D Some of my annual goals have been met. I've been playing on a regular basis with our...
Clean Palette, Dirty Water

Star Wars Imperial Assault Boba Fett - I'll confess right off the bat that this is nothing more than one of those, "Hey! Look what I did!" posts that everyone (including myself) skims through, b...
Necromunda: PURGE THE UNDERHIVE!!!

New blog dedicated to bases! - Hello just posting a shameless plug to my blog showcasing some of the bases I'm selling via eBay. http://h0ggedbasing.blogspot.co.uk/?m=0 And some pics of...
The Marienburg Gazette (Sigmaron Edition)

The Whole Age Of Sigmar 'No Points' Issue - I don't have any issue with the lack of points in Age of Sigmar. Others do. Such people comment that this means the game lacks 'balance'. But do points ...
Neon Pink Apokalypse

Ok... they forgot about us again... re: chaos dwarves/dwarfs? - Sooooo... A new age... An Age Of Sigmar! Yet again us poor people with a love for evil stunty types have been left without an army list/warscroll selecti...
Oldhammer

Oldhammer models - Is that model Oldhammer ? And this one? Every now and then the question comes back and while some will argue that the true proper "Oldhammer models" are ...
Alvarak System Campaign at Arthurs Court.

Provisional Planet rules to debate. - Here the planet rules Arthur and I came up with (Athur all but the last four!) If anyone thinks these will unfairly impact on their armies or unfairly boo...
FightingFantasist

- Not going to be maintaining the FF blog on Google anymore. Mainly because of this which seems to be the thin end of the wedge. http://www.theguardian.co...
Iron Kingdoms at War

Still Alive... - Yes, I'm still alive. After a good year and a half I've picked up the brush again...this time to paint a few more Hordes miniatures that had been sitting ...
Spiky Rat Pack

Iron Sleet: John Blanche – The Voodoo Forest - Hi ya'll! Just thought to remind you of our new home *Iron Sleet* (www.ironsleet.com). Don't miss all the great things happening in there! For instance, ye...
Legion of Plastic

Legion of Plastic is Dead! - Long live the Iron Sleet! - Hjolda! I have the utmost honor and excitement to share the news that the geniuses Kari and Mikko have joined forces with me to create a new, far superior ...
cult of the four armed emperor

CRUSH ELVISH IMPERIALISM! - I've been on a bit of a fantasy kick lately, and I have had piles of orcs prepped and ready for painting on my bench for months. With the holidays I fin...
40k The Last Heretic

Tablescapes Display Board Paint Test and Tutorial - Secret Weapon Miniatures' Tablescapes finally arrived and before batch painting all the display board tiles I thought I would paint a test tile first. Nor...
Spyglass Asylum

Pruning and so on... - Okay, hello to the inmates of the Asylum old and (surprisingly) new. Obviously it's been a vast while since I posted on here and this isn't really a post o...
Return to Logans World

Five Parsecs From Home - Skirmish Board - Greetings, Inspired by Tiny Solitary Soldiers and Planet Ares IV, my 6mm skirmish Sci Fi project has finally started moving again. The intention with t...
Roleplaying Tradecraft

What's in a Path? - *source*Paths offer some great roleplaying opportunities but, like Malkavians, are easy to fall short on if the player doesn't fully realize and embrace w...
The Metatyrant

Exercise - And now for something completely different: I think I'm going to cast it in resin and somehow use it with the regular 28mm scale miniatures. P.S. I'm...
ilikepaintinglead

I'M BACK!!! - Hello everyone I'm back, I am actually still alive and able to paint. Sorry for the huge absence, last year was fairly shitty and since then I've completel...
A Painter's Thoughts

H&V: RK1 Outworld - My journey - Hello everyone! Thanks for jumping in and having a look at my virtual workbench. Today I will talk a bit about my project for the MV *Forged Hope* contest....
Grumpy Wargamer

7th Edition First Impressions. - Got my copy of 7th edition today, (I know it's earlier and no I won't tell you how) and after a few hours of reading through and picking out some of the...
BlindDwarf

Wet palette and Jeremie Bonamant Teboul - Hi Guys, It has been a long while. I had family over from Europe and real life got busy. Today I want to talk bout two topics: wet palette and a painter n...
inq28

Inquisitor Harrow - So, Steve has delivered in fine form, with Gillam Harrow finally coming to life, along with his pets. Here he is, with his Hound, and a gun-skull: When I s...
Drazhar's Miniworks

Orc boar boyz - the boss - Finally, the boss of the unit. The boarboyz are taking more and more shape. I'm a great fan of back banners, I honestly don't know why. Maybe it's becaus...
The Tears of Isstvan

XIII follows XII. - Happy new year to you all. I hope 2013 brings you everything that you could wish for. Before we completely consign 2012 to history, I wanted to run a quick...
From the Warp

Stepping away from blogging for a while - I know, this isn't exactly 40k related, but I wanted to break from the normal stuff and talk about something that has been following me in the shadows for...
Between Dimensions

My venture into cartography - A while ago, while thinking up plots for roleplay, the seed of an idea was planted for a location. Over the months that seed has grown to such extent that ...
MyFantasyMiniatures Blog

High Elves: Alarielle Everqueen of Ulthuan - 🇬🇧 Alarielle the Radiant, Everqueen of Ulthuan, stands with her personal guard.Her crown is crafted from Eldar Spiritseer components. The throne combines...
Mythcreants

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